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I really really miss Imdb message boards so much


It's like losing a favorite relative. I miss the luxury of when ad block actually blocked spyware ads on the site. I miss that when I deleted an account, the entire account was deleted including all of its posting history. You really cannot find that at these other forums because they keep your account and posting history viewable for marketers to study and make more retarded ads. When I was on imdb2, there was a lunatic poster that was obsessed with poop. 95% of his posts were about how poop accumulates in your gut and how it bothered him to know that his girlfriend's flat stomach had poop in it. He went on about how much poop smells bad.
Well since I posted on the same board as he did, the marketers put ads on my YouTube account that advertised a product called V.I.Poo.
It was a spray used to eliminated the smell of poop in your toliet bowl or something like that. The ad even popped up in the middle of a music video I was watching. Yes. In the middle of the video! And all this because I just happened to post on a board with a lunatic that was obsessed with poop.

God I hate ads. Man I miss IMDb.

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Dude, get on with your life.

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I like Poo Pourri myself. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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Is this a joke?

You have to know *everyone* saw those ads on YouTube. It had nothing to do with what board you were on. I'm not and never have been on IMDB2, or any other board where one or more members were obsessed with poop, and yet I saw those ads for about a month. Yep, even in the middle of videos I was watching, just like I see ads for other things in the middle of some videos.

They were paid-for YouTube ads, nothing more.

If you use Google to search for certain things -- products, services, whatever -- that is what affects the ads you're shown. Nothing else does.

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